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Adaptive clustering with artificial ants
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computational intelligence, bioinspired algorithms, clustering, data miningAbstract
Clustering task aims at the unsupervised classification of patterns (e.g., observations, data, vec- tors, etc.) in different groups. Clustering problem has been approached from different disciplines during the last years. Although have been proposed different alternatives to cope with clustering, there also exists an interesting and novel field of research from which different bioinspired algorithms have emerged, e.g., genetic algorithms and ant colony algorithms. In this article we pro- pose an extension of the AntTree algorithm, an example of an algorithm recently proposed for a data mining task which is designed following the principle of self-assembling behavior observed in some species of real ants. The extension proposed called Adaptive-AntTree (AAT for short) represents a more flexible version of the original one. The ants in AAT are able of changing the assigned position in previous iterations in the tree under construction. As a consequence, this new algorithm builds an adaptive hierarchical cluster which changes over the run in order to improve the final result. The AAT performance is experimentally analyzed and compared against AntTree and K-means which is one of the more popular and referenced clustering algorithm.
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[4] Cheng-Fa Tsai, Chun-Wei Tsai, Han-Chang Wu, and Tzer Yang. Acodf: a novel data clustering approach for data mining in large databases. J. Syst. Softw., 73(1):133–145, 2004.
[5] Alex A. Freitas. A survey of evolutionary algorithms for data mining and knowledge discovery. In A Ghosh and S Tsutsui, editors, Advances in Evolutionary Computation, pages 819–845. Springer-Verlag, August 2002.
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[7] Marco Dorigo and Luca Maria Gambardella. Ant colony system: a cooperative learning approach to the traveling salesman problem. IEEE Trans. Evolutionary Computation, 1(1):53–66, 1997.
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“Adaptive clustering with artificial ants”, JCS&T, vol. 5, no. 04, pp. p. 264–271, Dec. 2005, Accessed: Jan. 17, 2026. [Online]. Available: https://journal.info.unlp.edu.ar/JCST/article/view/846
